Mitt Romney seems to have won last night’s Republican presidential debate, but along the way he delivered up a few WHOPPERS about President Obama’s public statements concerning Israel.

An example:

Romney said Obama “went before the United Nations and castigated Israel for building settlements. He said nothing about thousands of rockets being rained on Israel from the Gaza Strip.”

In fact, Obama invoked the threat of rockets into Israel in that speech last fall. “Israel’s citizens have been killed by rockets fired at their houses and suicide bombs on their buses. Israel’s children come of age knowing that throughout the region, other children are taught to hate them,” he said.

Obama has taken a tough stand on Israeli settlements. However, the Obama administration strongly defended Israel’s interests twice last year at the United Nations. The United States was the only country to veto a February resolution in the U.N. Security Council calling for a halt in Israeli construction in the West Bank. The United States also pledged to veto the Palestinians’ bid to join the United Nations and lobbied against the bid going forward. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed Obama’s opposition as a “badge of honor.”

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Every last Israeli settlement built in the territories occupied by Israel after the 6-Day war is ILLEGAL. The annexation of East Jerusalem is ILLEGAL.

Obama is a lawyer. Yet he endorsed these ILLEGAL settlements by vetoing a UNSC resolution calling for a halt to their construction and by continuing to fund those ILLEGAL settlements by sending nearly $3 billion in foreign aid to that country.

Why is it that the Israeli criminal regime is supported by both establishment political parties?

The outrage about Romney’s comments is not that they are lies, but that the policy that both he and Obama supports makes Israeli crimes pay, and that is treason in my book.

Seems to me, Red Rover, that a lot of muslim arabs don’t like jews. We would probably all be better off if they just committed mass suicide and let the peaceloving palestinians and other arabs in the region take over Israel. It would become a paradise, land of milk and honey, and example state for all the other freely elected governments and peace loving muslim societies in the Middle East.

You’ve got a lot of nerve talking about ILLEGAL. When one side wins a war, the winner typically gets to take what they want and call the shots (that’s called “the history of civilization”. There are several books on the subject, maybe you should read a few of them).
Since you are so hot on returning illegally obtained land, how about giving native Americans the western hemisphere back? I’m sure you are willing to move back to “the old country” wherever that is. Or at least have the courtesy to commit suicide and get out of the way of the LEGAL owners.

I believe the Normans also illegally conquered England in 1066. World Court, here we come with THAT case!

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Terry C says:
You’ve got a lot of nerve talking about ILLEGAL. When one side wins a war, the winner typically gets to take what they want and call the shots (that’s called “the history of civilization”. There are several books on the subject, maybe you should read a few of them).
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Israel ratified the 4th Geneva Convention in 1951. William the Conqueror never did. Therefore Israel is bound by international law to obey its provisions.

Section III, Article 49 of that treaty specifically deals with countries that occupy territories belonging to another country: “The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.”

When Iraq conquered Kuwait, did we allow them to “take what they want”? Why should the rule be different for Zionist terrorists who stole Palestine from its indigenous people?

There is NO legal and moral justification for the partition of Palestine, just as there was no justification for the partition of Poland between Stalin and Hitler in 1939.

Red Rover, apparently you ignored the part of my post about Israel being hated and attacked repeatedly by all the law-abiding Arab governments around it continuously for 60 years. Taking their land is exactly what they deserve.